Given April 15, 2008

While traveling on this day, I heard a teaching on the radio about Cain and Abel, (another revelation from the road).  The speaker emphasized something I had not noticed from Genesis 4:7 where God is talking to Cain, “You will be accepted if you do what is right. But if you refuse to do what is right, then watch out! Sin is crouching at the door, eager to control you. But you must subdue it and be its master“, NLT.  The revelation to me was, “sin is crouching at the door”.

This is how I see it; for sin to be crouching at your door, it has to be on your porch, have come through your yard, crossed over your fence, and entered your property.  Now, who let sin do that?  I suggest it might have been you.  If an adult DVD store wanted to set up in the far corner of your property, you’d dig your spiritual heels in and run them off!  Right?

So, what about when gossip shows up at your property line?  What happens if your temper tries to cross over your fence?  Then,  pornography comes through your yard and brings lukewarmness up on your porch and they join lying, cheating and cursing at your door?  You see what’s happened?

As the elder or head of my house, it’s my responsibility to use the Spiritual strength and authority available in me and to not only keep sin away from my door but not let it on my property!  But sin has a way of talking us into letting him closer and closer to our door, and if you don’t keep your guard up, it’s in the house.  “…and do not give the devil a foothold. Ephesians 4:27.“